ALLEN Gordon The Cheap Cottage and Small House. A Manual of Economic Building.
London, B.T. Batsford, 1919, 6th edition revised. [28680] xii, 144pp, 107 figs (many being on hors-texte plates). Cloth with attractive pictorial design, 23x16. Good copy, in the scarce dust wrapper (minor edge wear to this). £45.00
Excellent study. Most of the examples are taken from garden villages and other model schemes (at Hampstead GS, Gretna, Crayford etc).
Includes Arup art work
Arup. NORRIDGE Rob (catalogue designer) Ove Arup 1985-1988.
London, Institute of Civil Engineers, 1995. [29235] 96pp incl illustrations, cv, list of publications. WITH: loosely inserted an unusual Christmas card signed by Arup, 1955, apparently designed by him. Wraps, 19x19. Vg. £50.00
Published for an exhibition on the centenary of Arup's birth. The Arup artwork is a beautifully designed concertina folded Christmas card 15cmx6cm, unfolding to 76x6. A nice item.
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ARUP Ove Nyquist and JENKINS Ronald Stewart The Design of a Reinforced-Concrete Factory at Brynmawr, South Wales
London, Institute of Civil Engineers, Dec1953. [29256] pp345-397 incl figs plus fold-out figs, 4pp plates. Pamphlet, 21x14. Owner's initials on front cover, spine rubbed at top else vg for fragile item. £20.00
Nice pamphlet describing technical aspects of this famous building, completed 1950 and not long ago demolished. Note: other Arup books in stock. Please enquire.
ASCOT GAS HEATERS LTD (publ) Flats. Municipal and Private Enterprise.
London, Ascot Water Heaters, 1938. [29203] 286pp, extensively illustrated with photos, maps. Cloth. 29x22. Spine and spine letteing sun-faded else vg copy. £40.00
Despite its commercial publisher, this pre-war work contains valuable contributions on model projects in London and elsewhere. Texts include Maxwell Fry on "Kensall House" and Louis de Soissons on "Working Class Flats on the Continent".
BANHAM Reyner Theory and Design in the First Machine Age.
London, Architectural Press, 1960. [29257] 338pp, incl 137 b/w illustration. Cloth, 21x14. Top and bottom of spine little rubbed else vg, creased dust wrapper. £45.00
The first edition of probably Banham’s most famous work, influential and still valuable. Includes good material on the various urban theories of Sant'Elia, Le Corbusier, Taut et al.
BATSFORD Brian Cook The Britain of Brian Cook.
London, Batsford, 1987. [29113] Portrait frontis, 144pp incl 48 colour and 40 b/w illustrations. Foreword by Sir Hugh Casson. Checklist of works. Boards, 28x26. Vg in vg dust wrapper. £70.00
Brian Cook designed dust wrappers for Batsford from the 1930s-1950s. Many had architectural themes. This book as well as interesting autobiographical details, contains nearly all of Cook's jackets and numerous pen and ink drawings, for instance ones for volumes in the British Heritage series. Becoming scarce.
A Classic Mass Housing Work
BAUER Catherine Modern Housing
Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1934. [29667] xviii, 331pp+ 48 plates & incl text illustrations, detailed bibliography. Cloth. 24x15. Spine faintly sunned, very good. £145.00
One of the most important pre-war books on housing. Excellent international survey. The author was helped by Lewis Mumford, Raymond Unwin, Barry Parker, J. P. Oud, Le Corbusier and many others. A classic work, now very hard to find.
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BAXENDALE & COMPANY LIMITED Manufacturers, Merchants, and Shippers to the Plumbing, Building, Decorating, Electrical, Glass, Hardware and Ironmongery Trades Catalogue 561
Manchester, nd, c1930s.
[28666] 408pp incl hundreds of illustrations, some in colour. Gold decorated boards, cloth spine, 18x12. Covers very rubbed and rear hinge a little tender, marks on first page of index, contents in generally good condition. £40.00
Lovely catalogue mainly of plumbing and sanitary ware but also with a range of items such as leaded lights (with colour illustrations), advertising signs, glass, tools etc.
BELA Rerrich (intro) Rerrich Béla. With a preface by the artist.
Geneva, Masters of Architecture, 1930. [23376] xxipp preface, 52 pages plates. Cloth, 20x17. Owner’s bookplate, (Ir. M. Bolton, Architect), vg. £95.00
German and English text. Nice work in this scarce series. Béla helped establish a National Hungarian Style, including much refined brickwork.
Replanning Berlin
Berlin. HEGEMANN Werner Das Steinerne Berlin. Geschichte der grössen Mietkasternenstadt der Welt.
Berlin, Gustav Kiepenheuer, 1930. [21443] 505pp, incl 63 plates and including text illustrations. Open-weave cloth. 30x22. Very nice bright copy, in dust wrapper (this a little worn and chipped round edges and to head and tail of spine). £200.00
Hegemann's highly critical account of the modern development of Berlin. Prussian triumphalism in urban design and public architecture is set against the terrible housing conditions of the poor.
Berlin. TAUT Max Berlin im Aufbau. Betrachtungen und Bilder des Architekten Max Taut.
Berlin, Aufbau Verlag, 1946. [27644] 16pp incl drawings, plans, maps. Dramatic pictoral wraps, 30x42. Has been folded at some point, else good copy. £165.00
Unlike his brother Bruno, Max Taut was a practical, down-to-earth architect throughout most of his life. This work, however, produced just after the chaotic end of WW2, is a semi-utopian vision of Berlin emerging from the ruins. After being almost silent during the Nazi period, Taut had become professor at the High School for Fine Arts, Berlin, 1945-1954. (He remained in Berlin and died there in 1976). This rare work envisages a great avenue with trams and private vehicles moving between east and west Berlin, underground transport interchanges, well landscaped Modern Movement and cottage estates and other new features.
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BIRCH John Examples of Cottages, &c. with plans for improving the dwellings of the poor in large towns.
Edinburgh & London, William Blackwood, (1871), rev & enlarged 1892. [11375] Tissue-guarded frontis, 65pp, incl 33 plates (drawings & plans). Gilt lettered & patterned cloth. 25x16. Very nice copy. £95.00
Important model housing pattern book, somewhat in the picturesque style. The author wrote extensively on this topic.
Boberg. WALTON Ann Thorson Ferdinand Boberg-Architect. The Complete Work.
Cambs, Mass, MIT, 1994. [26665] Decorated end papers. 345pp incl illustrations, bibliog. Plus addendum and appendix consisting of a plan by Boberg of Strömgatan (1899-1902) showing a pineapple tower that was removed before construction, c100x70. Cloth in slipcase, 30x26. Faint scuffing to slipcase, book fine. £50.00
Boberg (1860-1946) was a major architect, a veritable Swedish Lutyens, who deserves to be better known. Although his work is mainly traditional, it is rich in decoration and materials with exotic features. He was also a painter and furniture designer. Detailed and informative work, including full catalogue, with lovely illustrations. Superb item
BRANDON Raphael and J Arthur The Open Timber Roofs of the Middle Ages, illustrated by perspectives and working drawings of some of the best varieties of Church Roofs; with descriptive letter-press.
London, D. Bogue, 1849. [29653] viii, 87pp, incl. text figs. + 43 engraved plates (some coloured). Patterned publisher's cloth, gilt lettered. 32x26. Cover very rubbed on edges, corners and spine with cloth split in places, very nice, bright and clean internally and good tight binding. £85.00
Original edition of this influential early Victorian manual for church architects, with perspectives and detailed working drawings of named timber church roofs.
A Fine Trade Catalogue
Bridges. DAMPNEY & CO., LTD. (issued by) Dampney's Three Coat Treatment for New Steelwork.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 3rd edition, nd c1938? [29769] 16pp, including 15 fine tipped-in illustrations (photographs & artist's views), all of bridges which have utilised the Firm's product. With good technical information. Publisher's ribbon-tied card covers, with tipped-on photo. 27x22. Excellent copy. £50.00
A beatiful trade publicity item. Illustrations include bridges for the Nile at Cairo, the Nanking-Pukow Train Ferry, Limpopo River, Bangkok Memorial Bridge, Chelsea and Westminster Bridges etc..
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Bristol. BRITTON J An Historical and Architectural Essay relating to Redcliffe Church, Bristol: illustrated with plans, views, and architectural details: including An Account of the Monuments, and anecdotes of the eminent persons interred within its walls: Also and essay on the life and character of Thomas Chatterton
London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1813. [24209] 72pp plus 12 engraved plates plus 4pp publisher’s adverts. Marbled boards, leather spine and corners, 23x15. Vg. £100.00
Burnet, Tait and Lorne. BARMAN Christian (foreword) The Information Book of Sir John Burnet, Tait and Lorne.
London, Architectural Press, (1933) 1934 impression. [29463] vpp, 55pp + 147pp blueprints + ivpp. Plasticised cover with spiral wraps, 30x25. Minor crease to back cover and pages a little tanned, but an unusually nice bright copy. £40.00
Meticulous work, originally prepared for use in the Burnet, Tait and Lorne Office.
CAMPBELL Colen etc Vitruvius Britannicus. Volume I: Vitruvius Britannicus volumes one, two and three by Colin Campbell, London 1715-25.
Volume II: Vitruvius Britannicus The hitherto unpublished "Volume The Fourth" by J Badeslade and J Rocque, London 1739 and Vitruvius Britannicus volumes four and five by John Woolfe and James Gandon, London 1767-71.
Volume III: The New Vitruvius Britannicus volumes one and two by George Richardson, London 1802-08 and a comprehensive Index to Campbell, Rocque, Woolfe & Gandon.
Volume IV: Guide to Vitruvius Britannicus by Paul Bremen and Denise Addis.
(London, 1715-1808) NY, Blom facsimile reprints 1967-72. [29550] Vol I: End papers maps, iv, 30pp text plus 300 plates. Vol II: 24pp text plus 200 plates. Volume III: iv, 30pp text plus 142 plates. Volume IV: xx, 132pp plus 4 large foud-out maps. Decorated cloth. Vols 1&2, 34x24. Vol 3, 41x31. Vol 4, 26x17. A good set throughout. £950.00
A full set of these valuable facsimile reprints, themselves now very scarce, of Campbell's famous work, including the four posthumous volumes; also Breman and Addis' invaluable modern guide.
Italian Cinemas and Theatres
Cinemas and Theatres. CAVALLE Mario Tecnica delle Costruzioni di Cinema e Teatri. Progetti s Costruzioni dell'autore coi particulari delle strutture in cemento armato e gli schemi degli implanti principali
Milan, Görlich, 1955. [29668] 128pp, mostly plans, photos, scale drawings, 151 in all. Library binding, 24x17. Ex library, vg thus. £45.00
Important early post-war Italian survey of the latest developments in cinema and theatre design utilising reinforced concrete.
Cinemas and Theatres. MORETTI Bruno Teatri. 39 estempi illustrati in 140 tavole con 130 piante e disegni con notizie sulle vicende dell'architettura del teatro e appunti utili all impostazione de massima del progetto di un edificio o di una sala per spettacoli.
Milano, Ulrico Hoepli, 1936. [29366] xxxviii (incl. numerous plans, photos), 142pp, mostly high-quality plates with photos, plans, texts. Pictorial cloth. 28x23. Nice copy. £125.00
Lovely work, describing new 'theatres of spectacle'. Over half the book is on cinemas. Case studies include the Pigalle in Paris, Radio-City Music-Hall New York, Lichtburg Cinema Berlin and Shakespeare Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon.
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Cornwall. SEDDING Edmund H Norman Architecture in Cornwall. A Handbook to Old Cornish Ecclesiastical Architecture with notes on Ancient Manor-Houses.
London, Ward & Co, 1909. [25819] Tissue-guarded frontispiece, 464pp, over 160 plates, large folding map, glossary. Publisher’s cloth, gilt lettered vellum spine, top edge gilt. 26x19. Ex library copy, withdrawal slip on end paper and number on reverse of title page only. Small ink crosses by names on list of churches noted, bottom corners rubbed and bumped. Still a good tight copy with clean fresh interior. £65.00
E. H. Sedding (d 1921), was a member of the notable West Country Sedding family of architects. He designed churches in New Zealand, as well as in Cornwall and Devon. This book did much to establish the qualities of Cornish medieval architecture.
Country Houses. STRONG Roy, BINNEY Marcus & HARRIS John The Destruction of the Country House 1875-1975.
London, Thames & Hudson, 1974. [29679] 192pp, with 383 illustrations, list of destroyed houses. Stiff wraps. 25x20. Vg. £55.00
This milestone 1970s report on country houses did much to focus attention on their serious architectural and conservation problems. These great buildings were disappearing at an alarming rate. Very scarce.
Cranes etc. HERBERT MORRIS. Herbert Morris, Ltd., Empress Works, Loughborough. Trade Catalogue.
Loughborough, published by the firm, 1912. [29559] 472pp, hundreds of illustrations (photos, diagrams etc). Cloth, paste down colour image on front 17x15. Scribbling on free end papers else vg. £65.00
Wonderful catalogue of cranes, hoists, conveyor belts etc with detailed descriptions. Includes much architectural information. The photographs, mostly from their factory, are especially fascinating. Wonderful catalogue.
Crematoria. SCHUMACHER Fritz Die Feuerbestattung.
Leipzig, J M Gebhardt (" Handbuch der Architektur" series), 1939, 2nd ed, [29659] 125pp, incl 124 photos, plans etc, bibliog. RIBA library binding, cloth with leather spine, 24x19. Ex RIBA library, withdrawn duplicate copy, attractive bookplate evidence of label removed on one prelim, vg thus. £120.00
Very rare survey of German and international crematoria by Schumacher. Some styles are traditional and others highly modernist. Very informative and well-illustrated study, published just at the oubreak of WW2.
DAY Lewis F Nature in Ornament. An Enquiry into the Natural Element in Ornamental Design & A Survey of the Ornamental Treatmant of Natural Forms
London Batsford, 1902, 3rd ed, 6th thousand. [29562] Decorated end papers, lovely frontis, xxiii, 260pp incl 192 text illustrations plus 123 plates and 12pp publisher's adverts. Elaborate gilt decorated cloth, 19x14. School presentation copy with attractive label, very nice bright condition. £45.00
Beautiful Victorian binding. One of the finest of the Day ornament books. This edition had various new additions.
Early Victorian Model Cottages
DEAN, Thomas (publ) Prize Model Cottages, Detailed Working Drawings, Plans, Sections, and, Elevations, of a Design for Labourer’s Cottages, by Mr T.C. Hine, Nottingham being the same for which The Society of Arts Awarded the First Prize in the Competition of May, . Accompanied by a Specification...../ IBID.... The Second Prize..by Mr S.J. Nicholl, Architect. [Two books in one]
London, 1848 [24814] Sepia frontispiece, title, 12pages + 6 plates; sepia frontis., title, 8pp + 9 plates. Original embossed boards, gilt lettered. 24x18. Professionally rebacked. Small piece cut from blank end paper, one or two lines of text inked, a little foxing, especially to end papers. Front cover a little spotted. Generally good for fragile item. £195.00
A rare model cottages item. The cottages were for agricultural districts. There were sixty-one designs entered in the competition, which was given publicity in the “Illustrated London News”.
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Deutsche Werkbund. HEUSS Theodor (intro) Das Haus der Freundschaft in Konstantinopel. Ein Wetttbewerb Deutscher Architeckten. Herausgegeben vom Deutschen Werkbund und der Deutsch-Türkischen Vereinigung.